GUSTAV MAHLER Das Lied von der Erde (Der Abschied) BERNARD HAITINK & ANNA LARSSON

[@thefrankonion]

Benjamin Britten wrote about the concluding "Abschied" of : "It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful."

[@briangoetzinger5452]

26:30 might be the most exquisite music ever written.

[@MrRODOARZE]

I'M AGREE!

[@thefrankonion]

I think it begins at 11:04

[@tractotus]

@@thefrankonion Correct!!

[@studentjohn35]

Perhaps that is the reason that KZbin decided to interrupt and insert an advertisement right there.

[@nathanielwatson7859]

Just perfect. Singer, conductor, orchestra (and English horn player!) are IDEAL!

[@davidblackburn3396]

And first flute!

[@rafaelgarrido-pena5891]

Absoluta maravilla. Una de las cimas de la historia de la música.

[@Duilio1948]

Ottima fusione tra canto e orchestra. Larsson possiede una autentica voce drammatica , plastica ed insinuante nei colori orchestrali. Ottimo il conduttore.

[@yvesgerard1308]

The best version after bruno Walter , Kathleen Ferrier and julius Patzak ... From afar ! ... forget others ... Anna Larsson , incredible voice . i discover today and my brain is really twisted ... Listen also the beautiful voice ( mezzo-soprano ) of Jean Rigby , so near from kathleen Ferrier , very sensitive and so respondent , in another " registre "... Roger B : Thank you very much for that !

[@martyzielinski2469]

Klemperer, Wunderlich, Ludwig............

[@varelion]

@@martyzielinski2469 Yes, Christa Ludwig sounds relatively similar, but with more expression, accentuation.

[@w.urlitzer1869]

Janet Baker.

[@alastairashford7919]

Exquisite!

[@allynemendescarvalho]

Excelente, maravilhoso, encantador.

[@patrickcardiff7811]

"relentless negativity" (previous comment) is a phrase attributed to various music critics who couldn't compose their way out of a paper bag. Mahler did apparently remark that people would go home and "shoot themselves" after hearing it. But he was joking! You don't put your entire musical life in front of people without having some doubt about how it will be received. It's up to the listener in the end. I see the work as positive, realistic, an optimistic view of life itself. Die liebe Erde allüberall Blüht auf im Lenz und grünt aufs neu! Allüberall und ewig blauen licht die Fernen! Ewig... ewig...

[@thefrankonion]

And so at the very last three minutes of this 60 minute work, the celeste finally gets to play. And does that make a huge difference/impact on the ending.

[@serrato0101]

"Para muchos es el testamento sinfónico del autor, formado por 6 canciones, de manera que las 5 primeras, juntas, suman un tiempo similar a la duración de la sexta: La Despedida".

[@ErikMCMLXV]

She makes it look so effortless. Is there an Anna Larsson fan club I can join?

[@damookie]

Devine.

[@dissilymordentroge5818]

Not since the Ferrier/Walter recording have I been so moved. My only qualm is what I take to be the effects of multi-miking but I soon forgot that.

[@joosiail6279]

EXCUISIT. indeed. Ms, Larsson.

[@hulyabilger8940]

❤

[@michelphilippeLehaire]

Does anyone know when this fantastic version has been recorded?

[@ibizaking]

around 2013.

[@michelphilippeLehaire]

@@ibizaking Thank you! :-)

[@frankeffenberger9698]

Surely the longest and most poignant farewell in the history of music.

[@photo161]

Perhaps with the exception of Mahler's own 9th symphony...

[@thefrankonion]

@@photo161 written one year or two later, the last movement of the 9th.. I cannot put it into any words

[@OmgEinWahnsinniger]

It is the greatest form of thematical and musical work of the concept of development. How the music breathes, awakens, grows and than finally dies out with a long exhale. This piece is truly transcendent and it is probably the greatest artistic achievement any human has ever created.

[@tractotus]

@@OmgEinWahnsinniger Agree

[@shadmium3471]

yes mahler 9 last movement beats this, but also mahler 3 6th mvt.

[@WW-nj5ln]

Anna Larsson's performance is stupendous. Better to just listen to the music and not to watch the video, besides the video's quality being poor (too dark and unfocused), one sees Larsson generally conferring with the sheet music ... Bernard Haitink's interpretation is emotionally undercooked from my perspective, the orchestra's resultant performance a touch too silky, lacking the sense of the momentousness of a terminal event. One could understand this last song as Mahler's attempt to reaffirm his unrequited love for Alma, that, despite their divorce, it will last "ewig", for ever. The motif at 11:25 is adopted from the Adagietto of the 5th symphony. "Der Abschied" can thus be sensed as a coda in every sense of the word to the "love letter" of the Adagietto.

[@Alexagrigorieff]

I don't know why, but Anna Larsson in this recording sound extremely pitchy to me.

[@pzbrawl]

Pitch drifts occasionally a bit, but I love her interpretation, also Haitink's.

[@xiaobrel]

Si on a Ferrier dans l'oreille, ça ne passe pas, belle voix, mais où est l'émotion ?

[@davidblackburn3396]

I can't stand Ferrier, give me Ludwig, and now Larsson.